Reports are that President Trump has picked former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. for ambassador to Russia.
The problem, however, is that Huntsman has no experience dealing with Russia, does not speak the language, and displayed little understanding of Russian affairs during his ill-fated run for president in 2012.
To be fair, he speaks Mandarin, which no doubt factored in Obama tapping him for ambassador to China. But here is what Trump himself tweeted about Huntsman’s presidential campaign and tenure as ambassador to China, respectively:
This is why the only thing that explains Trump picking him is that he wants Huntsman to “[give] away our country to [Russia].”
Trump and his putative puppet master, Russian President Vladimir Putin, clearly intend to use Huntsman as their gofer. And don’t think for a moment that he will resist. For he has shown repeatedly that he has the political spine of a “perfectly lubricated weathervane.”
This, after all, is the same Huntsman who, just months ago, found Trump’s misogynistic (pussy-grabbing) rhetoric so repugnant, he called on Trump to end his presidential campaign. Not to mention that he had already outed himself as self-righteous hypocrite in 2012, when he thanked Obama for that Chinese ambassadorship by trying to oust him from office.
No surprise then that, once again, Huntsman is blowing in the wind – from serving as Trump’s moral compass to serving as his political lapdog in the proverbial blink of an eye. But who better to do Trump and Putin’s bidding than a man with that kind of situational ethics?
In any event, his appointment also means that Putin can now recall Ambassador Sergey Kislyak – who has become downright toxic, given all of the congressional investigations revolving around his contacts with members of Trump’s presidential campaign. Of course, why would Putin need an ambassador to DC when he has a puppet in the White House?
All of which lends further credence to the shocking headline of my January 10 commentary: “US Intel Says Putin Has Compromising Info on Trump”
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